Catch up with Faculty staff in recent media. Providing knowledge and understanding through their writing, speaking, research, and expert comment.

Listings are in staff alphabetical order. Any School items appear at the end of the listings. Please click on the relevant link(s) in each section to access the media item.

 

Dr Brendan Ciarán Browne, School of Religion, Theology, and Peace Studies, has written a number of articles on the Israeli election.

 

Professor Anne Dolan, School of Histories and Humanities, is referenced by Taoiseach Micheál Martin in his discussions on how history and the insight of historians is important to him on Newstalk Radio’s Talking History Show on 25 October 2026: ‘Taoiseach Micheál Martin on the importance of history’. Listen from 10mins 49 secs.

 

Professor Aileen Douglas, School of English, is co-curator of an exhibition celebrating 300 years of Gulliver's Travels, with Stephanie Breen, TCD Library, in Trinity's Old  Library. Professor Douglas, Sephanie Breen and the exhibition feature in further number of media items.

 

Professor Daniel Geary, School of Histories and Humanities, features in a number of media items providing expert comment of the US midterm elections in the US.

 

Professor Patrick Geoghegan, School of Histories and Humanities and Director of the Trinity Long Room Hub, addresses comments attacking Simon Harris for not having a university degree in this opinion piece in the Irish Independent on 04 November 2026: Patrick Geoghegan: Oliver Callan’s dismissal of Simon Harris’s qualifications is the worst kind of elitism. (Subscriber content)

 

Professor Darryl Jones, School of English, and author of ‘For the Dead Remember: The Life of M.R. James’ discusses the history of the ghost story on Newstalk Radio’s Talking History Show on 25 October 2026: Part 2 of the episode ‘Taoiseach Micheál Martin on the importance of history’ - The history of the ghost story. Listen from 25mins 05secs.

 

Dr Neasa Ní Chiaráin, and Dr Ailbe Ní Chasaide, School of Linguistic, Speech, and Communication Sciences, Professor Carmel O’Sullivan, School of Education and Dean of AHSS, together with the ABAIR research group, appeared before the Oireachtas Committee on the Irish Language, Gaeltacht and the Irish-speaking Community on Tuesday 03 November 2026 (Session: An Nuálaíocht agus an Ghaeilge). They presented the work of ABAIR, the Irish speech and language technology initiative based in the Phonetics and Speech Laboratory, School of Linguistic, Speech and Communication Sciences. During the session, the ABAIR team provided live Irish-language captioning of the Committee’s proceedings using its ÉIST BEO system, the first time live captioning has been used at an Oireachtas committee.

 

Dr Ann Nolan, School of Social Work and Social Policy and Dr Neasa Ní Chiaráin, School of Linguistic, Speech, and Communication Sciences, appeared before the Oireachtas Committee on the Irish Language, Gaeltacht and the Irish-speaking Community on Tuesday 03 November 2026 (Session: Ó Bhéal an Phobail: Tithíocht i nGaeltacht Chiarraí Thiar) to present their research on housing and the Irish language in the Kerry Gaeltacht, with Professor Carmel O’Sullivan, School of Education and Dean of AHSS. This follows the publication of Dr Nolan and Dr Ní Chiaráin’s briefing policy document, which found that the housing crisis is threatening the sustainability of Irish as a community language in the West Kerry Gaeltacht.

 

School of Histories and Humanities. The VOICES project has announced a new collaboration with St. Patrick’s Cathedral and the Representative Church Body Library (RCBL) to facilitate the curation of the St. Patrick’s Cathedral Archive, which is housed at the RCBL, Churchtown. The VOICES project ‘Life and Death, War and Peace, c.1550-c.1700: Voices of Women in Early Modern Ireland’ is a five-year European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant project led by Professor Jane Ohlmeyer, School of Histories and Humanities, is hosted by the Trinity Long Room Hub, in partnership with the Department of History, School of Histories and Humanities, and the Science Foundation Ireland ADAPT Research Centre hosted in the School of Computer Science and Statistics in Trinity. This news is featured on a number of websites: